Tomb Gate at the Confucius Forest 孔林

For a supposedly private cemetery and forest, the Confucius Forest seems to have a lot of fancy stuff. Just entering the place one would already need to go through numerous gates and just when I thought I was already inside, there was yet another gate. This one is the Tomb Gate built in the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Yongle. This gate won’t probably be the last one but I’m hoping that it is already the one before the tomb itself.
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